Improvement in neck-tie retainers



'id-nitrati, gisten PORTER C.. MOLTON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 91,153, dated June S, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT I NECK-TIE RETAINERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thelame.

To all whom 'it v'wuz/y concern:

, Beit known that I, PORTER O. MoULToN, of New i Haven, county of NewHaven, and State of Connecticnt, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Neck-Tie Holder; and I do hereby decare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to tbe letters, of reference markedthereon. Said drawingsconstitute part of this specification, andrepresent in- Y Figure 1, a front View Vof my improvement, attached tothe bow, and in its proper position upon the collar;

Figure 2, a top view ,showing the method of attaching the same to thecollar; in Figure 3, a back view of my improved holder, de- Ytached fromthe collar; and in Figure 4, a top view of the same. Similar letters ofreference, when they occnrin the separate views, indieatelike parts.

My invention relates to an improvement in a device for holding a bow, orneck-tie, to the collar, and consists in placing upon the back of saidbow, or tie, two steel springs, or their equivalents, held together inthe centre, making a clasp at each end, within which` the ends of thecollar are inserted and retained.

The object of my invention is to produce a neck-tie holder which may beeasily adjusted, andone that is not liable to be accidentally removedfrom the collar.

In the common Inodel of attaching neck-ties, es-

` pecially where an elastic cord is used, the said'cord very soon wearsor stretches ont, and becomes unfit forV use; and in cases where the-tieis held by means of a Wire, or other spring over the button, theobjection is, that, it is very liable to cnt the button from the shirt,and thus render its use very inconvenient. In my invention all this isavoided, the tie being i held in any position upon the collar, where itmay be placed, without any extra wear, and without any danger of itsbecoming accidentally detached.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement, Iwill, proceed to describe the same.

A is a bow, or neck-tie, which is held securely upon aplate, B. Thisplate B is made suciently long to extend across the opening between thetwo edges of the collar, when the said collar is upon the neck.

Pivoted to', or otherwise fastened upon the said plate B, another plateor spring, C, is placed, which is made a little shorter than the plateB, to allow the thumbs of each hand to be placed upon the said platewithout interfering with the plate C.

The object of this spring-plate C is to clasp the edges of the collarbetween it and the outer plate B.

In placing the tie, or bow, upon the collar, the thumbbf each hand isplaced upon the ends of the spring-B, and by curving it forward, asshown in fig. 2, the two ends of the plates B and C are opened orseparated snilciently to allow the edges of the collar to pass betweenthem; this brings the plate or spring C upon the inside, and the plateor spring B upon the outside.

When the bow is in proper position upon the collar, the ends of thespriug'B are released, and the two edges of the collar are graspedbetween the two springs, which will continue their'hold upon the co1-lar, as before described, until the same operation is gone through withto release them.

lhe inner surfaces of the springs may he ronghened, in order to stillfurther guard against their slipping from the collar; but I do notconsider this as essential.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

In combination with a neck-tie, the retainer, con` sistingof asupportingplate, B, and a spring, C, between the outer ends of which theedges of the collar are clasped, and the neck-tie held in position,substantially as shown and described.

PORTER O. MOUL'ION.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. MonLroN, Burns H. SANFORD.

